yuko is so good at origami. whenever we sit somewhere, semi bored, waiting, she finds something to fold for me. and tonight she did some folding and molding of my brain. ah, what would we do without good friend? tours also mean quality time for yuko &sara, since we are always sharing a room in the tours. three years of sharing a room, sharing work, sharing neighborhood, thoughts, stories and feelings. will be hard to leave that.
yesterday i woke up at five thirty. and walked all around the kibbutz, my new home. and then joined the early bird workers. we are making a communal vegetable garden here. right in front of our house. i was digging, collecting stones for the terrace, shoveling compost..hard work for the back, but still enjoyable. i guess i have some sort of farmers blood running through my veins after all!
today, my pace is a lot slower. and on top of that i have a massive head ache. tonight we leave for poland. it makes me a little bit crazy to think of sitting in an airplane again, but breathe in and out, count to ten, i will survive that aswell!
it is almost three years ago since we found bones. we shaved all his nasty dreads away and he was so extremely skinny under all that hair. and very traumatized and neurotic. today he has a little bit more fat, a summer haircut again, and he is very friendly*to people*. me, i still had bangs at the time…
all sides of the same coin. the highlight is this huge state park next to our hotel. hours and hours of deep forest. i saw about four squirrels, three amazing butterflies and one turtle. for the rest, it is as american as it can get. too far from most things. but with dunkin donuts drive in around the corner.
i have been writing about greywater system a few times already. and in my new home, we do have one! by now, all the water from the bathroom goes straight into the garden watering this little cherry tree, a black currant bush and some black berries aswell. so showering simply means nourishing the cherry tree….how great!
i am very tired. even after eight hours of sleep. i shouldn’t complain. perhaps it’s cause my body is not used to so much dancing anymore, this morning i seem to have muscle pain everywhere. but the week is ending today. and the tomatoes that i planted are slowly turning red. next week we go to virginia. after that to poland. project fixing the house will be on hold from my side. have a good day!
if we would have 30 hours instead of 24 each day, maybe i would manage to do all the things i want to? this night i made a silverbeet pie. yummy. and then i ate an awful amount of jelly beans for dessert. i skipped the pub evening but had a few glasses of wine with friends instead. and talked in particular about women. but i didn’t yet finish sewing, nor packaging letters and gifts i want to send abroad, i haven’t made those calls i was intending to, and a few books are dying to be read. at least life is not boring. and bones is here snoring next to me. good night.
by now, this will have to count as an ex-bangs. in spite of my typical swedish, flimsy hair which have the tendency to fall of more than to stay put, i do seem to have ALOT of hair lately.
i made a table cloth of the strawberries. plucked some flowers. drank coffee that tasted like rubber. sew some curtains. and tried to be creative creating another pair of curtains from our kimonos. and cleaned alot. this is my first week of five days at work since before the long tour. out of shape both physically and mentally. jihoo!
